Thanks to so much support and so many hard hours of work from RIGC gardeners last year, we have a grant! We applied for a Citizens Committee Neighborhood Grant to help us along on our multi-year Accessible Garden Pathways Project. RIGC has just received a 2016 Neighborhood Grant for $2700. This grant will allow us to move ahead and make at least two years worth of progress in one year. Thanks to all who brought snacks, lifted wheelbarrows, shoveled gravel, weeded new paths, raked, watered, and cheered the workers along! We wrote about all your participation in so many ways and they listened. We also appreciate RIOC's cooperation and help as we have had to work with gravel in and gravel out to get this project under way.
We are working to make all of our pathways accessible for EVERYONE. Please come help or bring snacks. We will now be working again on Sunday, June 12th in a section B pathway. Check the website calendar for updates. If you see any of our teen helpers, be sure to thank them again for their willing heavy lifting!
When you are out at the gardens, look for our new grant sign from CCNYC alongside our old sign from 1988!
We are working to make all of our pathways accessible for EVERYONE. Please come help or bring snacks. We will now be working again on Sunday, June 12th in a section B pathway. Check the website calendar for updates. If you see any of our teen helpers, be sure to thank them again for their willing heavy lifting!
When you are out at the gardens, look for our new grant sign from CCNYC alongside our old sign from 1988!
Saturday June 4th we laid one of the longest paths in the garden and then tried to tackle the prep of another path in the heat: Board Members, Associates, and Teen helpers at the end of a four hour work session.
Beverly and four of our five long-term teen helpers, now recent graduates of UNIS and Stuyvesant.
Our newest path and one of our longest paths...thanks to the grant.
Volunteers of all ages.
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